Once, Rasool-Allah -saww was seated in Makkah, by the...

Once, Rasool-Allah -saww was seated in Makkah, by the courtyard of the Kabah, when a group of the chiefs of the Quraysh gathered – from them were Al-Waleed Bin Al-Mugheira Al-Makhzoumy, and Abu Al-Bakhtary Bin Hisham, and Abu Jahl Bin Hisham, and Al-Aas Bin Wa’il Al-Sahmy, and Abdullah Bin Abu Amayya Al-Makhzoumy – and with them came a large group of their followers.

And Rasool-Allah -saww was among a number of his -saww companions – reciting to them the Book of Allah -azwj , and entrusting to them, on behalf of Allah -azwj , His -azwj Commands and His -azwj Prohibitions. The Polytheists said to each other, ‘The matter of Muhammad -saww has grown strong, and his sermons (have become) great.

Come, let us censure him -saww , and reproach him -saww , and rebuke him -saww , and argue against him -saww , and invalidate whatever he -saww has come with – in order to humiliate his -saww sermons upon his -saww companions, and belittle his -saww worth in their presence. Perhaps, he -saww would be removed from what he -saww is (indulging) in, from his -saww error and his -saww falsehood, and his -saww rebellion and his -saww tyranny.

So, either it ends, or else we shall work with the sharp sword’. Abu Jahl -la said: ‘So who (will be the one to) follow his -saww speech and contest it?’ Abdullah Bin Abu Amayya Al-Makhzoumy said, ‘I am for that. Are you not pleased with me as a counterpart to reckon with, a sufficing debater?’ Abu Jahl -la said, ‘Yes’.

You -saww have claimed a great claim, and you -saww said a speech which boggles (the mind). You -saww claimed that you -saww are a Rasool -saww of the Lord -azwj of the worlds, and it is not befitting for the Lord -azwj of the worlds and Creator of the entire creatures that the likes of you -saww should become a Rasool -saww for Him -azwj (an extract, Hadith to follow).